Journal Entry # 7

Quote 1:


Although I still believe that social networks has allowed our student to lose a crucial communication factor (face-to-face communication skills), I can understand how it is beneficial for the student. Part of growing up is discovering who you are and making a place for your self in this world. Places such as myspace or the creation of web pages have allowed individuals to do this. As educators we know that students go through many stages when expressing their-self, through the creation of these pages student are developing and identity and learning about their own values, whether they realize it or not. I believe that this development is a crucial life skill. Concerning academics they are using a variety of different types of literacies to explain or represent who they are from basic text to multimodal technologies.


Quote 2:


I guess I never thought of social networking in this way. This quote proves how social networking can be very beneficial to the student, and how it can help communication skills, academics and future success.


Quote 3:


Although I can understand the importance and benefits of social networking I cannot disagree with the items presented in this quote. That online communication last the non-verbal features which help us to understand another true feelings. Someone can easily hide behind the text on a computer screen, and this is my only negative thoughts to towards the subject. I feel that both types of communication are beneficial in their own way but that their must be a balance between then - thus one type of communication should not be used more than the other. As educators we should attempt to find a balance of communication in the classroom as well.